Everyone gets stressed out. It is entirely normal to experience worry and stress from time to time. However, not everyone who is stressed has an anxiety disorder. It can be hard to tell whether or not your stress has turned into a full-blown anxiety disorder. Here are...
Relapse does not mean that your recovery has failed. Relapse is a normal part of recovery. Addiction is a chronic and complex disease. Drugs change the way the brain works. This fact makes quitting very hard even for people that want to stop. The chronic nature of...
Deal with anxiety with these valuable tools. You’re in bed thinking about your job or maybe your health. It’s been an hour, and you can’t sleep. Worried thoughts keep running through your mind. To make matters worse, you have to get up in five hours...
Co-parenting after a divorce is hard. Here are some tips to make it easier.If you have ever argued with your ex-spouse in front of the kids, talked badly about the other parent while they are not around or refused to allow your ex-spouse to visit with the kids, then...
I had the opportunity to watch a “chick flick” (I love deep ones with lots of character development) with 3 of my good friends last weekend. After the movie, we sat out on the patio until midnight in the glow of the white twinkly lights strung up on the fence. We...
